Please help: ptp links addresses

--- On Tue, 25 Jun 96 16:01:41 +0100 Mike Norris <mnorris at dalkey.hea.ie>
wrote:
>1- using a /30 subnet for each link:
> in this way both ends of the link have a unique address (binary
> 01 and 10), but two addresses (binary 00 and 11) cannot be used,
> so 50% of the address space used is wasted. This should be
> avoided if possible because the address space required is
> really large.
The usage is actually 75%, as there are effectively three addresses:
the two ends (00 and 01) and the broadcast address for the network
(11). 10 is the unused address.
Mike
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Actually, if you are using Cisco solely, you can always define "ip
subnet-zero", and use broadcast AND network addresses. No loss :-)
Cheers,
Sincerely, \'"'/
Barak Engel ( o o )
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Engel Barak, NetVision WAN team BE-RIPE
E-mail: barak at netvision.net.il
Date: 6/26/96 Time: 8:49:40 AM
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